Sentence examples for coordination compound from inspiring English sources

In the Casiopeína III-ia coordination compound the copper (II) ion is able to coordinate with the phosphate species (HPO4 2− or H2PO4 −) replacing the water molecule and therefore it is able to form hydrogen phosphate bridges with other Casiopeína III-ia aggregates.

See also chemical association; coordination compound.

Perhaps the earliest known coordination compound is the bright red alizarin dye first used in India and known to the ancient Persians and Egyptians.

Another early example of the preparation of a coordination compound is the use in 1760 of a sparingly soluble compound, potassium hexachloroplatinate(2−), K2[PtCl6], to refine the element platinum.

An example of a coordination compound is [Co(NH3 6]Cl3, which contains the Co(NH3 63+ ion, a cobalt ion (Co3+) with six ammonia molecules (NH3) attached to it, acting as ligands.

Coordination number, also called Ligancy, the number of atoms, ions, or molecules that a central atom or ion holds as its nearest neighbours in a complex or coordination compound or in a crystal.

Coordination compound, any of a class of substances with chemical structures in which a central metal atom is surrounded by nonmetal atoms or groups of atoms, called ligands, joined to it by chemical bonds.

Many coordination compounds have distinct geometric structures.

Many different kinds of isomerism occur among coordination compounds.

Both Co2+ and Co3+ form numerous coordination compounds, or complexes.

Naturally occurring coordination compounds are vital to living organisms.